Everyone at Merge Games is really excited to bring SunnySide to this awesome community. After some feedback and updates to the demo, we've decided to give the game a little more time to soak up sun and grow to its fullest potential. We'll now be releasing SunnySide to Steam and Epic Game Store on June 14! We can't wait for you all to start your farming journey in SunnySide, and are so excited to welcome you to our rural Japanese town! Don't forget, you can play the SunnySide demo now and experience the first 10 in-game days to get a feel for how sweet life in SunnySide can truly be!
Stay tuned on all the latest SunnySide news in our Discord server.
Wishlist SunnySide on Steam and we’ll see you on June 14th!
The youngest granddaughter of Kazuki and Chiyo, Hanako came to Sunnyside to work through her medical residency at the local clinic. She doesn’t love the country town, and she's definitely not afraid to complain about it... loudly. When she's not on her phone or pulling pranks on Dr. Okada, Hanako will find any excuse to visit the nearby city, Higashi. If you want to get to know her, try a shopping trip in the city or maybe a coffee date.
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We’re excited to be taking part in Steam’s Farming Fest between April 29th - May 6th!
Farming is such an integral part of SunnySide’s DNA, and to celebrate the Farming Fest, we’ve released a new trailer that focuses on farming in SunnySide.
Watch the new Farming Fest Trailer below:
You may have also seen that we added some huge updates to our demo last week! We’re excited to have brought full localisation to the demo, including English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese.
Another key update was the inclusion of a brand new farming app on your phone - PlantDaddy! This whole new app helps you see the information for crops when it isn't available in SunnySeed. Partnered with YouTube legends Epic Gardening, this app is also themed around the EG branding and features a cameo from EG host (and our awesome friend) Kevin Espiritu as a chibi-style helping hand!
With Farming Fest kicking off, what better time is there to try out the new and improved SunnySide Demo than right now? Head to our Steam page to download the demo and celebrate Farming Fest!
And don’t forget - our Sparky Makeship Plushie campaign is still live! Head on over and order your cuddly companion before the campaign ends!
Thank you again to everyone who has been playing and enjoying SunnySide! We’re super excited for release! ❤
First and foremost: LOCALIZATION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE DEMO!!!
We’ve been overwhelmed by the international support we’ve seen for SunnySide, and want to thank everyone from all over the world who has shown an interest in our little game. As of now, and on full release, SunnySide supports the following languages:
English
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
German
Spanish
French
We understand the desire for SunnySide to be available in other languages, and we’ll definitely be looking into expanding the list after release. We really appreciate your patience.
Nextly, for everyone who has been enjoying the demo so far, we’ve been watching you all stream and have been going through a lot of the feedback, and are happy to provide the following fixes to everyone playing the SunnySide Demo:
The game is now localized in Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Simplified Chinese!
Can no longer press confirm on a sell menu while it's closing, no more unlimited money exploit, stop it.
A whole new app to help you see the information for crops when it isn't available in SunnySeed! Introducing PlantDaddy Farming Companion! Shoutout to EpicGardening for allowing us to theme the whole app after them, it looks immaculate.
All the fonts in the game now have a fallback font that supports all glyphs in different languages.
Recycle machines now work correctly overnight.
Recycle machine now has full controller support.
Adjusted the green beam above vendor drop points to make it more visible when there are items inside.
Can no longer destroy the pre-placed blueprints.
Ultra-wide monitors are now supported! The camera FOV now stays the same regardless of screen width.
Reworked how the player is possessed on map switching and sleeping. This should fix many problems of the player being able to open the phone, inventory or otherwise control the character before the loading screen fades out.
The journal and map hotkeys now only work if the player is grounded and can open their phone or inventory. This fixes a lot of crashes.
Added a buffer to jumping that disables interactions with the world. In other words, you can no longer interact with something and jump at the same time (it was very hard to do, to begin with, but it's impossible now).
Obeng, Nakamura and Hoshi woodworks maps are all now separated, alleviating some frame rate and crashing issues in the area.
Changed the streaming settings for the game, levels should be loading much faster now.
Fixed the long-running issue with ecosystem and foliage items duplicating at times. This should have a major effect on performance and memory if the player has been exploring around the map.
You can now adjust the rate at which time passes in real-life minutes.
Added a trail effect to the mini-map that follows the player, this should help with navigation so the player knows where they're coming from (thanks FF7 for the idea!).
Map pins now properly appear with a beam effect in the map app as they should've all this time.
Map pins now have a world beam as well which can be toggled on or off.
The property name is now 26 characters long (from 15).
Property names now support multi-language typing both in the field and in the world.
Cats now meow at an acceptable volume.
The quest "It Takes a Village" now starts after completing the objective "Go to TechHero" as opposed to the "Finish Build Station Blueprint" that it was connected to before.
Big improvement to particle memory management. Particles too far away to see are now destroyed properly.
Improved the UI of tutorial pop-ups and the app.
Improved the UI on the contacts screen in Squirrel.
Enabled fish particles in water! They're finally here. Their path of swimming and count is still under work, so don't be alarmed if you see a massive school of fish having a party around town.
Improved the UI of tutorial pop-ups and the app.
Improved the UI on the contacts screen in Squirrel.
You can now view any tutorial in full screen through the tutorials app.
Added a function that changes the cursor speed based on screen resolution. This should maintain a more accurate cursor speed on 4K screens.
The cursor now appears in the center of the screen as opposed to the top left.
Map beacons in the world now hide themselves when entering a cutscene.
You can now toggle the world beams using the quick actions in the radial menu.
From this build onwards, if at any point the player has an unfinished quest that doesn't have any unlocked objectives yet (we call these quest holds) a text displays in the place of an objective in both the HUD and the journal app to let the player know that they can continue this quest after progression in other quests.
If the player has completed an objective before receiving it, such as "Meet everyone in SunnySide" now the objective will correctly complete itself upon receiving it.
The quest window now hides itself if no quest is available any more.
You can now sell items to select Higashi vendors.
Melody's and Chiyo's shops now open a lot more reliably and bug-free.
Vendor services now count correctly when added to the list of orders.
Complete rework of the ocean, you can now swim and fish in the ocean.
Submitting critters to the field labs now works properly.
The critter cam now produces much clearer photos.
All stone lanterns along the roads are now back on the map, and also lit up!
Can no longer open inventory or phone while swimming.
Lots of improvements to memory and performance.
All the fishing lure packs in the game now give you the correct items with proper spawn rates
Fixed the tags on all fish, cooking them should be much easier now.
Enabled frame smoothing which should reduce framerate stuttering (but doesn't fully eliminate it).
Complete rework and polish of the phone notifications, now they queue up properly, appear smoothly and collapse really nicely as they fade.
The build station crash is now fixed.
You can now use quickmove on the buildstation as well.
The stick fence and path now come pre-unlocked as your first blueprints. No more empty build mode after unlocking the drone.
Enemies now disappear properly after being destroyed in battle.
Fixed the UI breaking on many texts in certain languages.
Reworked the map markers on the farm, now there are 3: The Parcel Box, The Shed and The Tea House which only appears after building it.
You can no longer hang out in the tea house before it is built.
Many quest markers on the farm now point to the accurate location. For example, getting tools from the shed points to the shed.
Your birthday in Squirrel can no longer be 0.
SunnySeed now has rotation in its stock, it changes every day.
Aligned the app icons in the phone vertically, properly.
Fixed a physics crash that could occur when crashing the bicycle on the road.
Ryozo and Blake's houses are no longer flooded.
The clock now progresses minute by minute instead of 15-minute intervals.
Polished up how status effect icons display next to the hunger/stamina bar. They now stack based on what effect is visible instead of being static.
Fixed the incorrect text showing up on the parcel box in the map app.
Map App photos no longer appear stretched.
A slight change in the behavior of the drone flying, you can now move forward and elevate at the same time a lot easier.
All drone upgrades (except for thermal cam and active camo) now work properly again.
Riverside Ranch now works correctly and only displays unlocked animals.
Riverside Ranch animal lists no longer continue to duplicate every time the player selects a bed.
Passing out on a vehicle now works properly and no longer softlocks the player.
Increased the overall quality settings of the game on High settings in texture quality and shadow quality.
Major change and improvement to water across the map, the collision detection is much more accurate now. This means swimming should not break anymore, in the ocean, rivers or any other location.
NPCs no longer teleport occasionally when spoken to.
Shoe removal zones now work properly again.
Placed blueprints can now be destroyed properly.
Fixed a large number of food recipes, cooking should work a lot more reliably now.
Lots of new road signs in and around SunnySide.
You can now open any tutorial in full screen after being acquired.
“Make an offering at the shrine” Objective now completes when the player opens the skill tree.
The quest tracker on the HUD works a lot more reliably now.
The Caves no longer unload when the player opens the map app.
Fishing animation now works consistently.
Ryozo now spawns properly in town a day after the quest "Sting Operation" is activated.
Don’t worry, this isn’t all the fixes, and we’re still actively working on the game (and will be all the way to release). If you find new bugs in the game, or find old bugs that haven’t been fixed yet, worry not. We’ll get to them ^_^.
Thank you again to everyone who has been playing and enjoying SunnySide! We’re super excited for release, and we MAY push one or two more updates to the demo before then. ^_^
Lots of Love! -RainyGames
Meet Anahita Watanabe
Anahita is the eldest of the two Watanabe kids and was born and raised in SunnySide. Naturally intelligent, she's had no problem living up to the lofty expectations set by her parents. But now that she's all grown up, Anahita is struggling to break away and form a life of her own, especially with constant pressure from her mother to start a family. If you want to get to know her, try an intellectual activity or something outdoors.
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You may have noticed that we've been sharing some fun pictures across social media, and we're excited to announce that you'll be able to pre-order your very own Sparky Plushie right now!
We've partnered up with our friends at Makeship to make this Sparky plushie happen, and the campaign will only run for 21 days, so be sure to get your order in fast! If you're not familiar with how Makeship works, it's similar to Kickstarter in that the plushies only get made if the campaign is successful. So we're counting on you, our INCREDIBLE community, to help get Sparky plush into the adoring hands of fans across the globe.
The community has been wanting plushies for SO LONG and we're super excited to finally give everyone a chance at having a Sparky companion IRL!
-RainyGames
Releasing on Steam on May 24th!
Hey everyone!
We’re so excited to announce that SunnySide will be releasing on Steam on May 24th
This has been a long time coming, and it means that SunnySide launches on PC in just over a month! You, our incredible community, have been so amazing and patient and we’re super excited to share this news with everyone!
Check out the brand new Release Date trailer below:
You may have seen us teasing something else on our socials this week…
We’ve partnered with our friends at Makeship to create a limited-time plushie campaign for the robotic heart and soul of SunnySide, Sparky!
Orders go live today at 8pm ET, and the campaign will run for 21 days, so be sure to set your alarms for 8pm ET today!
Thank you to everyone for your continued support for SunnySide - we can’t wait for you all to experience the full game! SunnySide also comes to consoles on July 10th.
Stay tuned on all the latest SunnySide news in our Discord server.
We've been sharing pictures on our Discord and Twitter, and wanted to make sure our Steam community could get in on the action. Enjoy these sneeks from the last week:
We have some exciting news coming your way on April 11!
Keep an eye on our steam updates and join our Discord Community if you don't want to miss out on our latest news this week.
Meet Sebastian Nakamura
Sebastian is one of the few residents who was born and raised in SunnySide. Formerly a student of poetry with dreams of becoming a writer, Sebastian now spends his days running the local cafe, Naka, after taking over management from his mother a few months ago. Sebastian means well and only wants what's best for his small family. If you want to get to know him, know that he loves coffee, nature, and compliments.
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People attending the event had the opportunity to play SunnySide on PC—here are some photos from the event!
We would like to thank everyone who came down to say hello and play the game! Let us know what you thought of the game!
And don't forget - you can get a taste of what life in SunnySide has to offer with the SunnySide Demo on Steam! Play the demo today and experience your first days as a new resident of our rural Japanese town!
